dummies to create companies in Hong Kong, he’d never consid- ered the consequences of his own family member becoming one.

Enraged, Mathew found an email address on the website of the Australian Federal Police. He sent a note saying he had informa- tion about an Australian and Zimbabwean citizen, based out of the Philippines, who was dealing in weapons and drugs. In late 2010, an AFP agent responded, and Mathew had several conversa- tions with him. After another six months, the AFP connected him to someone at the CIA. Then things seemed to stall.

Unbeknownst to Mathew, his fellow Zimbabwean Robert McGowan—the real Robert McGowan—was making his own ap- proaches to law enforcement. He had been trying to recover his losses from his dealings with Le Roux after he was left holding the bag on the logging equipment for Le Roux’s canceled projects. Then, when the U.N. report on Le Roux’s operations in Somalia was picked up in the Zimbabwean press in 2011, McGowan dis- covered that the company affiliated with it, Southern Ace, was reg- istered to him. Frantic, he called Alon Berkman in Israel, trying to get in touch with Le Roux. Moran Oz remembered the call, and Le Roux’s response: “Ignore him.”

McGowan then tried another tack, contacting an attorney in the United States who was married to an old friend of his wife’s. McGowan asked if he could take legal action against Le Roux, to somehow get his name removed from any companies registered in his identity. He also had evidence that Le Roux had broken into his email. “I need to try and close up everything I have linking me with this guy, including the companies in the USA, Israel & Hong Kong,” McGowan wrote to the attorney. “I do not have the re- sources available to go to each of these countries to shut everything down or to hire lawyers. These people are very dangerous and have already bombed his relative’s house here and shot through the bedroom window just missing hitting him. If we take this up with law enforcement in the U.S.A., what sort of protection can we get?”

The lawyer replied that “in the simplest terms you have been the